[CS-FSLUG] Oracle, OO.org and LibreOffice

[Marco Tedaldi]

Am 18.10.2010 01:24, schrieb Ed Hurst:
> Is there anyone on the list competent to comment on what appears a
> rather ugly disagreement on the OO.org planning council? I don't want to
> steer the conversation in any particular direction; I'm just curious if
> someone I know is close to the story, and if they'll comment.
>
A bunch of people had gotten the feeling, that Oracle would not really 
support the development of OO. but since the name OpenOffice belongs to 
sun which was aquired by oracle, they had to choose a new name.

Thats the great thing on Open source. If you don't agree, you can fork. 
time will tell which side is "right". Many forks have led to interesting 
developments and late to remerges, where the features of both branches 
have been merged again to the benefit of all users.

Now oracle seems to be a bit upset about this fork and clings to the 
name OpenOffice. The refuse to join the Organisation behind libre office 
ansay, that they want are committed to develop OO themselfes. Only time 
will tell.

Last know to me is, that Oracle has asked the people that support labre 
office to leave the open office project.

I think, most distros will soon switch to libre office in favor of 
openoffice.

Greets

Marco

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